I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
GEORGE JONESI lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
More George Jones Quotes
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It didn’t make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he’d say, “Get up and sing me some songs.”
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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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